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Prompted by lawsuits from families whose children died after prolonged chatbot conversations, it would block AI-companion toys for minors until January 2031, putting Mattel and Disney's AI-toy plans at risk of a California blackout (TechCrunch). The hardest category of AI harm to argue against, and the one most likely to set precedent.
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Apple filed a 41-page complaint July 10 in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, Chief Hardware Officer (ex-Apple VP) Tang Tan, and former engineer Chang Liu, alleging systematic theft of on-device AI and silicon trade secrets...
Thune, Cruz and Klobuchar are negotiating a bill obligating frontier developers to design against catastrophic risks such as a model helping someone build a nuclear or biological weapon, giving the government a route through federal courts to stop a release. The same measure w...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
CDAO Cameron Stanley confirmed the DoD has begun engineering work on internally developed LLMs and expects them operational "very soon," with xAI and OpenAI as interim alternatives. Defense Secretary Hegseth's supply-chain-risk designation against Anthropic remains in effect....
- Source: TechCrunch - Date: 2026-02-04 Anthropic ran satirical Super Bowl ads: "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude." Altman called them "clearly dishonest," writing an essay-length rebuttal claiming "Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people." Marketing profes...
Co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners with Mubadala Capital participating, against the $10B valuation from its $1.38B round last October, and following a $13B five-year GPU cloud contract with Jane Street. Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI are all customers. TechCrunch
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